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...Rabbi Meir Kahane, 53, explained it, he simply lacks the time to continue serving as head of the Jewish Defense League, a militant organization based in the U.S. that claims about 15,000 members. The Brooklyn-born Kahane currently spends most of his time in Israel, where he is an elected member of the Knesset and head of the ultra-right Kach Party. Last week Kahane announced that he was resigning from the league, which he founded in 1968. As his successor he named Irv Rubin, 40, the J.D.L.'s West Coast coordinator...
...Haftarah along with me, so that whenever I forgot something all I had to do was listen -- they were way ahead of me anyhow. It was like having a hundred prompters. My mother observes the dietary rules now, but back then our family was storefront kosher. Whenever the rabbi left our house it was, "Strike the sets, remove the props." My mom and I were seafood nuts, but of course lobster is not kosher. We'd bought three live lobsters for dinner, and sure enough, the rabbi pulled into our driveway. Mom panicked and threw the live crustaceans...
...complexities of so-called simple folk. In A Nest Egg for Paradise, a prosperous and pious Jew named Mendel falls victim, once, to the seductive appeals of his sister-in-law. He tries to hide his shame and suffering from the neighbors, but he brings his anguish to a rabbi in another village. "I've forfeited my share in the world to come," he confesses. The rabbi congratulates Mendel and explains, "The Master of the Universe has plenty of paid servants, but of those who would serve Him for nothing, He has hardly...
Another eight stories take place in Warsaw during the early decades of this century. A few of these, like The Divorce, relate the memories of a young boy whose rabbi father dispenses spiritual and practical advice to the teeming neighborhood around Krochmalna Street. Simply paying attention to the people who come to the apartment for help trains the lad to become a writer: "I was interested in people's talk -- their expressions, their excuses for wrong deeds, and how they twisted things to suit themselves." And he or someone very like him appears in other Warsaw stories as an apprentice...
...declined assistance from abroad. Last week, however, the Wiesenthal Center supplied the Brazilians with the dossier it had assembled on Mengele and prevailed on them to allow three U.S. experts to observe the forensic process. "I understand that it is Brazil's national pride that is in question," said Rabbi Hier, "so it is difficult for them to say that American experts are going to be the ones at the table. But that is exactly what is going to happen." West Germany also sent over three forensic specialists to watch the proceedings...